Stanzas On The Peaceful Struggle In Europe by Thomas Cowherd: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas On The Peaceful Struggle In Europe that begins with:

Slumbereth now the British Lion,
In his sweet green Island lair?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded eXeX XfXf XfXf abab gege ahah iaia X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101010 0011101 11101011 1011101 11111110 1000101 01101110 0011101 10101010 0111111 10101010 1011101 11100110 1011101 101010010 0110111 00101100 0111101 11111010 10101001 11111010 10010001 11111010 1100111 101110010 1010001 11111011 1110111 11101010 0110101 11101010 1110101 11101010 1011011 10101010 1110011 11111110 0010101 00101010 1001101 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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